The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-11-19
the morrow, the fatal 4th Of May. possesses pc
culiar interest. Spies wrote:
"REvENeE, REVENGE,
"woRKMEN, TO ARMSi

"Mcn Of labor, this afternoon the bloodhounas
Of your opprcssors murdered six Of your broth
ers at McCormick's. Why did they murder
themt Because they dared to DO dissatisfied.
with the lot which your oppressors have as.
signed to them. They demanded bread and
they gave them lead for an answer, mindful OF
the fact that thus people are most effectively
silenced. You have for many, many years en-
dured every humiliation without protest; have
drudged from early in the morning till late at
night have suffered all sorts of privations, have
even sacrificed your children. You have done
every thing to fill the Golfers Of your masters
every thing for them; and now, when you APP
proach them and implore them to make your
burden little lighter, as n reward for your sac.
rinces they send their boodhounds-the police
at you In order to cure you. with bullets, OF
your dissatisfaction. Slaves, wo ask and conjure
you by all that is sacred and dear to you,
avenge the atrocous murder which has been
committed on your brothers to-day, and which
will likely be committed upon you tomorrow.
Laboring men, Hercules, you have arrived ut
the crossway. Which way will you dccides For
slavery and hunger or for freedom and breadf
II you decide for the latter, then do not delay q
moment; them people. to arms! This must be
your motto. Think Of the heroes whose blood
has fertilized the road to progress, liberty and
humanity, and strive and become worthy OF
them. YOUR BROTHERS"
Neebe and other notablcs OF the I. A. A. took
horses, and In person scattered the circular
broadcast, not failing to leave copies with the
rank and file of the International "armed Sec
tions" gathering in Greifs Hail, "a West Lake
street. That the circular gave the impulse to
the action of the armed sections at this Monday
night meeting, and inspired the adoption OF the
plan OF bomb throwing agreed upon Is apparent
from the fact that its contents were first fully
| discussed Then the complete detailed plan OF
| the particular method Of inauguratng the
wholesale murder for which they originally or
ganized was formally considered and adopted,
the time for the slaughter being left for the Ar
better Zeitung to designate by publishing the
signal word 'ruhe" (peace).
This latter feature was the work OF Adolph
Fischer. who had come to the meeting straight
from the Arbeiter Zeitung, where he had been
assisting Spies and Schwab. That Fischer was
carrying out the plans of his superiors appears
| more clearly from the circumstances that 1t
| out of their idea Of holding the Haymarket
| meeting in the morning instead of at night, as
| Spies and the other leaders had decided.
A darker picture is not to be found In history
| than this spectacle Of fourscore murderous con-
| spirators in the wretched saloon basement, re.
morselessy plotting the massacre that occurred
| not hundred yards distant, before another
midnight passed. Rudolph Schnaubelt, the
| thrower OF the Hnymarket bomb was among
| the eighty or more assassins who composed this
/ horrible meeting. Though adjournment did not
come till long after IL, it was not Z o'clock next
| morning CTuesday), when Louis Lingg, men,
| ber OF this identical "armed section" opened
| the chest Of dynamite that had lain untouched
| In his lodgings since four days before. Under
| his expert directions, six of the men who at
| tended the murder meeting of the previous
| night quickly set to work then and there filling
| globular shells with dynamite.